Project Leadership

Principal Investigators:

Lisa Anderson, dean emerita, School of International and Public Affairs, and Faculty Associate, Middle East Institute, Columbia University

Saloua Zerhouni, professor of political science at Mohammed V University and president of the Rabat Social Studies Institute (RSSI), Rabat

Steering Committee:

Lila Abu Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University

Rabab El Mahdi, Chair of the Political Science Department and Director of Alternative Policy Solutions at the American University in Cairo

Sari Hanafi,  Chair of the Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies Department at the American University of Beirut, and the editor of Idafat: the Arab Journal of Sociology, President, International Sociological Association, 2020

Stéphane Lacroix, Associate Professor and Researcher, CERI/Sciences Po

Seteney Shami, Secretary General, Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Beirut

To learn more about the project or get involved, please contact remena@columbia.edu